IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
2 Nov - 7 Nov 2025
Session information
Committee(s)
Criminal Law Section
(Lead)
Anti-Corruption Committee
Asset Recovery Committee
Business Crime Committee
Criminal Law Committee
Description
Witness the intersection of corrupt activities and environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns play out in the courtroom at the IBA Criminal Law Section’s annual mock trial. As is now tradition, the mock trial will showcase the hearing and resolution of a corruption case involving individual and corporate defendants in the public and private sectors through IBA members acting out a real-life case study. This year, register to watch our advocates prosecute, defend and judge allegations involving ESG, greenwashing, bribery and corruption.
Speakers
| Tara Archer-Glasgow | Higgs & Johnson, Nassau, Bahamas; Publications Officer, Litigation Committee |
| Stephane Eljarrat | Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Internal Investigations Officer, Compliance Subcommittee |
| Lorna Emson | Macfarlanes LLP, London, England |
| Marc Hassberger | Chabrier Avocats SA, Geneva, Switzerland; Social Functions Officer, Asset Recovery Committee |
| Frederick Hui | Zhong Lun, Central, Hong Kong SAR |
| Francesco Isolabella Della Croce | Studio Legale Associato Isolabella, Milan, Italy |
| Justinas Jarusevicius | Motieka & Audzevicius, Vilnius, Lithuania; Scholarship Officer, Asset Recovery Committee |
| Benjamin Keith | 5 St Andrew's Hill, London, England |
| Norm Keith | KPMG, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Lukasz Lasek | Wardynski & Partners, Warsaw, Poland; Committee Liaison Officer, Criminal Law Committee |
| Mark Mendelsohn | Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, Washington, District of Columbia, USA; Regional Representative North America, Anti-Corruption Committee |
| Manavendra Mishra | Khaitan & Co, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Asia Pacific Regional Forum Liaison Officer, Business Crime Committee |
| James Raymond Newland Jr | Dentons, Washington, District of Columbia, USA; Webinar Officer, Anti-Corruption Committee |
| Felix Ka-ho Ng | Haldanes , Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR; Secretary, Business Crime Committee |
| Keith Oliver | Peters & Peters, London, England; Senior Vice Chair, Asset Recovery Committee |
| Roberto Pisano | PisanoLaw, Milan, Italy |
| Oliver Pragal | Pragal & Prinzenberg, Hamburg, Germany |
| Willemieke Princée | OX & WOLF legal partners, Curacao, Curaçao |
| Chitra Rentala | Trilegal, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Mirjam Steinfeld | Rosinus Partner Rechtsanwälte, Frankfurt, Germany |
| Ann Sultan | Miller & Chevalier Chartered, Washington, District of Columbia, USA; Secretary, Anti-Corruption Committee |
| Leon Vidaller Segura | Garrigues, Madrid, Spain |
| Robert Wyld | Johnson Winter Slattery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Member, Anti-Corruption Committee Advisory Board |
| Leanne Yanli Zheng | JunHe LLP, Beijing, China |
| Sabine ten Doesschate | Sjöcrona van Stigt, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Co-Chair, Criminal Law Committee |